Canavar loves presents, I love presents, everybody loves presents! I think I haven’t got as many Christmas presents for many years as this year. I have got the impression that friends and even workmates in the US just like to give each other something. So I had the idea to show you what I have got. Ehm, and also what I gave myself on top.

Canavar has got a toy from our roommate – a stick with a thread to which balls and feathers are attached – and he adores it. Cats are really simple in this respect, they play with the same kind of toy for all their lives. I gave a rustling bag to him, which he also likes to lunge at.

My presents look slightly different. Luckily, I don’t chase balls or leap at rustling foil. For one, I have got different kinds of chocolate, which never does any harm. As does not soap (please pay attention to this excellent verbal bridge) – a friend made it by hand and gave it to many of us.

One of my best friends in Boston gave us a calendar with beautiful pictures which he all took in Australia. Besides, I have got an annual subscription for the US Cosmopolitan from my roommate. I love to read magazines in order to totally zone out so that this is the perfect gift for me.

I obviously have sufficiently given the impression that I am a crazy cat lady. That is the only way how I can explain why I have got several gifts with cats. There is for one the awesome book “Artists and their cats”, which I had already longingly stared at in the bookshop before. But I thought that I don’t really need it. And yet, it contains wonderful photos, and I would love to have a tamed ocelot like Dalí. My friend gave the “Crazy Cat Lady” mug from Urban Outfitters to me, another one the Christmas card which contains several pictures of hot guys and/with cats. When I opened it, it made me laugh a lot.

I have to admit that I really like to present myself as a crazy cat lady. There, said it! When I talk about cats or my cat specifically, I don’t have to talk about anything else, like maybe my own inner self even. This tactic has worked perfectly for years, and people never notice or at least not for quite a long time.

Finally, I made myself two presents, or three if I also count my flight ticket to Istanbul. I really needed a hairdryer and then by coincidence got a mail with a voucher of 20 Dollars for Sephora because I am such a good customer. This is why I treated myself to a good hairdryer, the Sephora Collection Blast: Ceramic Ionic Blow Dryer. Having used several times, I am very impressed. I had never had such a silent hairdryer before. Besides, my hair has volume once it’s dried, and it is also really soft and not strawy at all. But then again I had never spend more than twenty Euro for a hairdryer before, and I think that’s really the fly in the ointment.

The other present to myself was quite an impulse buy because I fell in love at first sight with these shoes from House of Harlow 1960, the Sadie Pull On Alpine Boots. Luckily, that happened in TJ Maxx where they cost less than half of the original price. In any case, they are the warmest and most comfortable winter boots ever. As far as I have understood it they are made of leather and faux fur. I always need good winter shoes anyways (oh, I can think in such a convenient way when shopping if I only want to), and my last pairs lasted between five and ten years.